Re: developer account set up

Le sam. 6 mai 2023 à 23:31, Nate Graham a écrit : > Hello Utkarsh, > > You don't need a developer *account* to start contributing, and in fact > you can't have one until you've made a number of contributions already. :) > > If you're looking for information about starting the process of > contrib

Re: developer account set up

-Utarsh It might be worth re-thinking this policy now that we use GitLab. People don't need a developer account to fully contribute anymore. Nate On 5/7/23 09:41, Johnny Jazeix wrote: Le sam. 6 mai 2023 à 23:31, Nate Graham > a écrit : Hello Utkarsh, You do

Re: developer account set up

So Right now what do I need to do? Can you suggest to me anything that is beneficial for me? On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 2:53 PM Nate Graham wrote: > -Utarsh > > It might be worth re-thinking this policy now that we use GitLab. People > don't need a developer account to fully contribute anymore. > >

Re: developer account set up

Le dim. 7 mai 2023 à 11:22, Nate Graham a écrit : > -Utarsh > > It might be worth re-thinking this policy now that we use GitLab. People > don't need a developer account to fully contribute anymore. > > Nate > > We usually recommend contributors to create branches in the main repository (work/gso

Re: developer account set up

> We usually recommend contributors to create branches in the main repository > (work/gsoc/...). Is it possible without a developer account? > > Johnny It doesn't have to be the GSoc student that creates the branches, only that they are the ones putting commits in it. Something I've seen done is

Re: developer account set up

There's also no reason anymore why they need to use a work branch in the main repo; a fork works just fine. I do nearly all of my development using personal forks; it's a 100% supported first-class citizen experience. Nate On 5/7/23 17:06, Joshua Goins wrote: We usually recommend contributors

Re: developer account set up

On Sun, 2023-05-07 at 17:21 +0200, Nate Graham wrote: > There's also no reason anymore why they need to use a work branch in the > main repo; a fork works just fine. I do nearly all of my development > using personal forks; it's a 100% supported first-class citizen experience. +1 I remember whe

Re: developer account set up

On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 3:22 AM Nate Graham wrote: > There's also no reason anymore why they need to use a work branch in the > main repo; a fork works just fine. I do nearly all of my development > using personal forks; it's a 100% supported first-class citizen experience. > For those using fork

Part-time KDE sabbatical, feedback or guidance appreciated (but no pressure)

Hi all, If it helps, think of this email as some sort of bizarro GSoC/SoK application, with less detail perhaps, where you can only comment/advise but not reject. (In return I can't ask for a dedicated mentor, but having a preferred point of contact or two would be really nice! If any of these

Re: Part-time KDE sabbatical, feedback or guidance appreciated (but no pressure)

Welcome back to KDE! Yes, involving yourself in bug reports is in my opinion the best way to get started, especially if you want to orient yourself with the gargantuan codebase of KDE. > I'd also be interested in having something like the mouse button mapping UIs > that Windows users get from th

Re: Part-time KDE sabbatical, feedback or guidance appreciated (but no pressure)

On Sun, May 7, 2023, at 10:11 PM, Joshua Goins wrote: >> I'd also be interested in having something like the mouse button mapping UIs >> that Windows users get from their mouse manufacturer, enabling remapping of >> mouse buttons not just to keys but also to modify other mouse (or keyboard) >> beha

Re: Part-time KDE sabbatical, feedback or guidance appreciated (but no pressure)

Bug reports are a great way to go, they really need a lot of love at the moment. Lots of bug reports are for incredibly old versions and may or may not be still valid Good luck! - Kye Potter, KDE Gardening On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 1:26 PM Jakob Petsovits wrote: > > On Sun, May 7, 2023, at 10:11 PM

Re: Part-time KDE sabbatical, feedback or guidance appreciated (but no pressure)

Hi Jakob, great to hear you want to dedicate some serious amount of work to KDE! Your plan to split your love to (1) a pet project and (2) some higher-impact place sounds about right. My advise is, to give different corners of the KDE world a try. Having nice people that interact with you, are